Farm Security Administration Photography The Rural South And The Dynamics Of Image Making 1935 1943

Author : Stuart S. Kidd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farm Security Administration Photography, the Rural South, and the Dynamics of Image-making, 1935-1943 written by Stuart S. Kidd and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While previous studies of the photographic images of the U.S. southern poor produced by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) have been discussed in the context of individual photographers or the general culture of the Great Depression and the New Deal, Kidd (American history, U. of Reading, UK) situates his examination of the photographs in the institutional context of the FSA and the role played in photographic production by FSA administrator Roy Stryker. The photographs emerged, according to Kidd, from the dialogue between Stryker and his field photographers about the proper way to document disadvantaged and oppressed groups within the framework of a progressive, federal government. The resulting productions reveal "an uneasy dimension to the relationship between individual and the liberal state and its cadres" that is partly an outcome of class cleavages between photographer and subject. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Stuart Cohen
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923402
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Likes of Us written by Stuart Cohen and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housed at the Library of Congress, the archives of the Farm Security Administration constitute an essential visual record of American life from the late 1920s through the onset of the Second World War. Guided by the adroit hands and watchful eyes of the master photo editor Roy Stryker, the FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee, whose names and work may be less familiar. Stryker's approach to his photographers' assignments was a bracing mix of structure and improvisation. He sent his artists across the country to shoot for a few weeks, mostly in small towns and rural areas. They worked from what Stryker called shooting scripts - laundry lists of possible subjects and situations - but were always free to explore their own perspectives on a locale, its inhabitants, and their activities. When negatives and prints arrived, Stryker would guide his artists with suggestions, advice, and sharp-eyed criticism, all designed to elicit their best work. This book collects work from nine of these trips - Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others - uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. What emerges, beyond the images themselves, is a complex and vital overview of the FSA at work, not just the work, but how the work evolved and matured under Stryker's guidance. The book concludes with photographs of New Orleans, the only city photographed in depth by the FSA artists. Reproduced in duotone, the 175 photographs in The Likes of Us, all printed from the original negatives at the Library of Congress, offer a rare opportunity not only to see a choice selection of famous and little-known images but also to understand the working of one of the government's most original and creative pre-war initiatives.

Author : United States. Farm Security Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bitter Years: 1935-1941 written by United States. Farm Security Administration and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Australian Centre for Photography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book America 1935-1943 written by Australian Centre for Photography and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Years of Bitterness and Pride written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photos of the Farm Security Administration of the 1930s, in an unprecedented feat, documented an entire land and its people. Of the 270,000 photos taken between 1937 and 1943, under the enthusiastic goading of Roy Stryker, hundreds today are considered masterpieces of photography worthy of exhibition and publication as art. Taken by such great photographers as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee, and showing that even in poverty there is a spirit of hope, these images, which are a national treasure, bring to life a historic time.--cover

Author : Claude Hubert Cookman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People's America written by Claude Hubert Cookman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rose A. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book Photographs of the Farm Security Administration Photographers, 1935-1943 written by Rose A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Farm Security Administration
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Photographers of the Depression written by United States. Farm Security Administration and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Godden
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820327085
Total Pages : 269 pages
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Download or read book Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars, 1918-1939 written by Richard Godden and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin D. Roosevelt once described the South as "the nation's number one economic problem." These twelve original, interdisciplinary essays on southern indigence between the World Wars share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of the marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. Although previous studies have examined the web of coercive social relations in which sharecroppers, wage laborers, and other poor southerners were held in place, this volume opens up a new perspective. These essays show that professed forces of change and modernization in the South--writers, photographers, activists, social scientists, and policymakers--often subtly upheld the structures by which southern labor was being exploited. Planters, politicians, and others who enforced the southern economic and social status quo not only relied on bigotry but also manipulated deeply held American beliefs about sturdy yeoman nobility and the sanctity of farm and family. Conversely, any threats to the system were tarred with the imagery of big cities, northerners, and organized labor. The essays expose vestiges of these beliefs in sources as varied as photographs from the Farm Security Administration, statistics for incarceration and child labor, and the writings of Grace Lumpkin, Ellen Glasgow, and Erskine Caldwell. This volume shows that those who work to eradicate poverty--and even victims of poverty themselves--can hesitate to cross the line of race, gender, memory, or tradition in pursuit of their goal.

Author : Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Walker Evans written by Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photography of Walker Evans (1903-75) is introduced in a new, redesigned and expanded edition of Aperture's classic book from its Masters of Photography series. Evans helped define documentary photography and is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He captured the American experience from the late 1920s to the early 1970s with graceful articulation. Photography historian David Campany contributes a new introduction and image commentary to this volume, which includes some of Evans' best known and loved photographs.